Drotops Megalomanicus Trilobite 132mm, this long individual is endowed with many tubercles and postures covering the glabella cranidium of the cephalon, the head shield. Having the appearance of armoured metal spikes ready to do battle, could this have been a keep off me defence? When the first discoveries of this genus of fossil trilobite where made in southern Morocco it was at first known as Phacops rana, however this type was not related to the North American phacops at all and has since been classified as its own separate genera type, the large frenzied invertebrate of north Africa Megalomanicus, rather than the frog eyed invertebrate of north America Phacops rana.
Genus: Drotops Megalomanicus. (Phacops Rana Africanus).
Age: Paleozoic Era, Middle Devonian, Eifelian stage, approximately 390 million years.
Origin: Region of Daya el Maider, Nr Tafraoute Sidi Ali, Djebel Issimour, Alnif, Morocco North Africa.
Drotops Megalomanicus measurements.
Length: 13.2 cm
Width: 7 cm
Height: 3.5 cm
Overall measurements.
Length: 14.4 cm
Width: 9 cm
Height: 6 cm
Approximate weight: 800 g Learn More

Drotops Megalomanicus Trilobite 130mm. An excellent fossil trilobite displaying some key attributions of the type, particularly in the images of the underside of the hypostome, chin area and the doublure, the doublure is the under edge of the exoskeleton or continuation of the dorsal carapace in the ventral view, where the carapace wraps itself back under the dorsal surface. A rare view of the morphology of the exoskeleton carapace.
Genus: Drotops Megalomanicus. (Phacops Rana Africanus).
Age: Paleozoic Era, Middle Devonian, Eifelian stage, approximately 390 million years.
Origin: Region of Daya el Maider, Nr Tafraoute Sidi Ali, Djebel Issimour, Alnif, Morocco North Africa.
Drotops Megalomanicus measurements.
Length: 13 cm
Width: 7 cm
Height: 3 cm
Approximate weight: 363g Learn More

Drotops Megalomanicus Trilobite 138mm. This fossil trilobite can still unveil a story of its evolution through the complex schizochroal eye, as multi compound eyes stand up from the cephalon, filled with a multitude of convex lenses, which were made up of the mineral calcite this having endured the test of time in its taphonomic state. Trilobites melted their exoskeleton or carapace, these carapaces are often found enrolled, like a defensive ball. This genus Drotops grew exceptionally large, larger than most Phacops genera for which it has a close resemblance. A relatively recently named and classified discovery from the fossil beds of Morocco.
Genus: Drotops Megalomanicus. (Phacops Rana Africanus).
Age: Paleozoic Era, Middle Devonian, Eifelian stage, approximately 390 million years.
Origin: Region of Daya el Maider, Nr Tafraoute Sidi Ali, Djebel Issimour, Alnif, Morocco North Africa.
Drotops Megalomanicus measurements.
Height: 3.5 cm
Length: 13.8 cm
Width: 7.3 cm
Overall measurement.
Height: 5.7. cm
Length: 17.3 cm
Width: 11 cm
Approximate weight: 1,228 g Learn More